I've been BRAWLIFIED!!

[j.rob]

I after a year of straight brawling, I decided to dust off good old melee and play it to remember the good old days....

Good lord.....I suck at melee now.
I couldn't wd, shffl and I had numerous times where I just fell to my death due to the gravity.
Back in the day I was the shizzle, and I could own level 9's EASILY! But now I struggle to beat a level 6 link!

Has anyone else had a experience like this?

 

[thekingsdinner666]

In that case you were probably never good at Melee to start out with. A year of brawling shouldn't make someone suck at Melee. And LVL 9's in Melee were easy as hell to beat.

 

[n88]

I played Brawl before I played Melee, but I get what you're saying.
I went a few months without playing Soulcalibur and I canGuard Impact consistently anymore.

 

[Zeruel21]

No kidding! It's really painful, given that I spent so much time working on AT's and whatnot. I can't even do a proper SHFFL anymore...It's mostly because of Brawl's buffering for me. My timing has gotten a little lazy, so I can't do any sort of fast movements. Besides that, it takes a while to remember the kind of hitstun you get after an attack and that you only have one airdodge that leaves you helpless. I was never competitive enough at Melee, and this only reinforces my decision to dedicate myself to Brawl.

 

[Crazy_mofo213]

Playing between Melee and Brawl tends to throw me off a bit mainly due to the depth when compared to Brawl. I guess you "suck" because you just forgot how fast paced Melee is.

 

[Apollo$]

I can never really go back to melee and I never really got into the AT's anyway, at least I learned how to wave dash a little bit, lol.

 

[NintenJoe]

the only thing that I've lost through the process of brawlification (?word?) is the ability to waveshine consistently. I've retained pretty much everything else

 

[ndayday]

It only takes me around 30 minutes to remember the timing for shffls, WDs, L canceling, grabbing with Z, etc. It's easy for me to get used to Melee I guess, but it's hard as hell to try to pick Brawl up after even a day (meaning pretty much a whole day filled with Melee) of Melee. It's pretty much the opposite for me.

I know some people can get more used to the switch after doing it for a while, and some people just can't do the switch without sucking at one after playing the other. It really has to do on how fast you can adapt I think, as I can remember the ATs etc, it just takes me a while to be able to do them again.

 

[thekingsdinner666]

When I went back to Melee I had no problem SHFFLing, L-Canceling, WDing, DIing right, Wavelanding/Wavedashing, and ATs. Not very hard, except for I can't Sheik chain anymore. D:

 

[Nicole]

I used to play Peach in Melee, but now that I play her in brawl it is quite a struggle to switch back to Melee and actually do anything good. Also...for some reason I can now use ZELDA in Melee rather well (which is terrible because Zelda's practically the worst character in that game). Doesn't make any sense.

 

[Marthos]

I haven't really played Melee too much since brawl, but I've gotten it out for old time's sake before and completely sucked. I guess I never really got into all of the fancy stuff, but the game mechanics are completely different. Brawl seems to be a lot more fast-paced too.

 

[Zeborg]

Melee is far more fast-paced than Brawl could ever be (it's faster than Brawl+ also). But of course that doesn't mean it's any better or worse.

 

[Project D]

I didn't play melee as competitively as I do on brawl since the only person that actually played me was my brother (which always won, it vice versa for brawl) and the computer, which isn't really as fun.
chances are that I go back to it, I'll do quite badly because of the time being away from melee.

 

[ISMFOF]

ive never had this problem. but then again, i only use melee now for black holes, those things are tight.

 

[Spydr Enzo]

I have had an experience like this, very recently. I'm extremely nostalgic and I miss the good old days when everything was simple and me and my friends would spend our summer nights playing hundreds of games of Melee after a long, exhausting day outside. Now its all "school, and work, and parties, etc.". Brawl just doesn't stick like Melee does...

So, being stuck in the past like I am, I dug up Melee, shoved it in the disk drive, and let me tell you... IT FEELS GREAT!

 

[Sgt. Baker]

Well, I sucked at Melee to begin with (thar, I seid it!)

 

[kr3wman]

The trick is to play Melee before playing Brawl. You won't **** up nearly as much and if you do it won't really impact your game. (comparing to the situation of someone playing Brawl and then playing Melee)

 

[Kamikaze*]

Yeah, but I didn't suck as bad as you when I came back to melee, lol.

 

[smasher32]

There was definitely a period where I had trouble switching back and forth. If you do it enough though, it becomes second nature.

But losing the skill to beat a lvl 6 computer? Come on...

 

[Nixernator]

I have a similar thing, I'm an avid player of Smash 64. But I play much brawl competitively, the problem is that my aggressiveness from 64 makes me suck at brawl.
Whichever one you've played more will always be easy to come back to, the muscle memory will always be there, whereas the one you play less or not as competitively will be harder to "remember". I can not play 64 for weeks and still Z cancel, sh, dash dance etc etc well, whereas I'll come back to brawl and be screwing everything up and trying to Zcancel all my aerials.
The key is that to really find one you enjoy and don't really bother being tourny good at two. Unfortunately I'm not tourny good at the one I go to tournies for .

 

[Mota]

LOL I know what you mean...

Picked up melee, chose Young Link...Zaired without canceling, Attempted to quickdraw, Bair Chain, Up taunt..Faill